In some cases (editing kn5, for example) app removes original files to Trash Bin, so you can easily restore them if something goes wrong.Warning! Ctrl+Z in Windows Explorer restores them, so be careful!

If you want to rebuild app, please, contact me first: it's written with Js-Ext, and I didn't make any documentation for it

Recommendations

Use “Various” as the brand name if there is no brand at all

Don't forget to use Body/Wheels Ambient Shadows Fixer when shadows is invalid; if results are messed up, fix them in some image editor

You can override brand's logos, upgrade icons and stuff

If you create new mods, please, add such fields as “author”, “version” and “url”

Better enable “Upload some changes” and then those values eventually will be added in global database

Troubleshooting

Error “App doesn't have access to this folder”
You have to grant access to Assetto Corsa root folder. Overwise app won't be able to edit files, and it's its main purpose! To grand access you can run app as Administrator, but it's a worst way. Much better way is to change Security Properties of the folder. When app get access to game files and nothing else.

Error “Cannot get previews. Process exited.”
If AC Showroom closes on launch, maybe there is a problem with the car. Open log file and check last lines.

Autoupdate doesn't work
Please check if app has access to his folder. If you drop carsmgr.exe into something like C:\Program Files, disable autoupdate at all (but I don't recommend it).

Changelog

0.3.62

Previews for Assetto Corsa 1.5

0.3.58

Updated custom showroom

Memory consumption fixed

Camera controls improved

0.3.57

New shortcuts:

Ctrl+C: Copy selected car's location to clipboard

Ctrl+Shift+C: Copy selected car's id to clipboard

0.3.56

Old Auto-Update Previews modes reverted back (optional)

Custom Showroom fixed

Added auto-update for selected skin, very handy

To exit from new Auto-Update Previews mode, press Esc, now app will handle it properly

0.3.55

Auto-Update Previews mode now works perfectly thanks to @6S.Manu!

Proper fixed position without any input simulation!

You can update one preview at the time

PP filter was adjusted to match new 1.4 look

Manual mode still works old way, maybe it will be useful for some special cars

Stretching & size fixed

Filters improved

Now with numbers: “year>1995”

And specs: “bhp<500”

And combining them: “author:Kunos & (bhp < 200 | weight > 1000)”

Another example: “!ks_ & author:Kunos”

Shortcuts updated:

Ctrl+Alt+A: Update shadows + Update previews

Ctrl+Alt+S: Update previews

Ctrl+Alt+D: Update shadows

Ctrl+Alt+1: Update preview of selected skin only

0.3.53

Ambient shadows update fixed

0.3.52

Custom Showroom Auto-update previews fixed

Custom Showroom improved (now with normal maps)

Ambient shadows update for AMD videocards

A lot of fixes for systems which use “0,1” instead of “0.1”

0.3.51

Bugfixes

0.3.49

Preview generator quality has been reduced back (there is the new option to use PNG, but be careful!)

Support for 1.3.1

Simple race mode (more settings will be in next WPF-version)

0.3.48

LR/HR nodes fixer (enables COCKPIT_HR, disables COCKPIT_LR and etc)

Blurred rims fixer (use it when car in showroom has blurred rims)

Preview generator quality has been improved

Warning! There is a bug in Windows GDI+, which messes up JPEGs even when quality is 100%. So for now app saves preview.jpg as PNG-image. Everything should work fine anyway, but it's still kinda bad. I'll try to find better solution.

Shortcuts updated:

Ctrl+Alt+A: Update shadows + Update previews in manual mode

Ctrl+Alt+S: Update previews in manual mode

Ctrl+Alt+D: Update shadows

0.3.47

Fixed year autoinsert

Fixed cars toggle

Custom Showroom: fixed, improved, optimized

0.3.45

Fixed memory leaking, improved perfomance

Fixed INI parsing (seriously, these files are such a mess)

Bugfixes

0.3.44

Bugfixes

0.3.42

New highly recommended PP Filter special for Auto-update Previews

New drive modes: hotlap, drift

Added support for tracks with different configurations

Auto-detect original sfx uses

Restoration Wizard:

Missing sfx

Bugfixes

0.3.41

Fixes and improvements for Kn5 and Custom Showroom

0.3.40

Drag'n'drop archive or folder to install new cars or skins or update existing

Warning! When you're installing skins, you have to select target car first!

In some cases (editing kn5, for example) app removes original files to Trash Bin, so you can easily restore them if something goes wrong.Warning! Ctrl+Z in Windows Explorer restores them, so be careful!

If you want to rebuild app, please, contact me first: it's written with Js-Ext, and I didn't make any documentation for it

Recommendations

Use “Various” as the brand name if there is no brand at all

Don't forget to use Body/Wheels Ambient Shadows Fixer when shadows is invalid; if results are messed up, fix them in some image editor

You can override brand's logos, upgrade icons and stuff

If you create new mods, please, add such fields as “author”, “version” and “url”

Better enable “Upload some changes” and then those values eventually will be added in global database

Troubleshooting

Error “App doesn't have access to this folder”
You have to grant access to Assetto Corsa root folder. Overwise app won't be able to edit files, and it's its main purpose! To grand access you can run app as Administrator, but it's a worst way. Much better way is to change Security Properties of the folder. When app get access to game files and nothing else.

Error “Cannot get previews. Process exited.”
If AC Showroom closes on launch, maybe there is a problem with the car. Open log file and check last lines.

Autoupdate doesn't work
Please check if app has access to his folder. If you drop carsmgr.exe into something like C:\Program Files, disable autoupdate at all (but I don't recommend it).

Changelog

0.3.62

Previews for Assetto Corsa 1.5

0.3.58

Updated custom showroom

Memory consumption fixed

Camera controls improved

0.3.57

New shortcuts:

Ctrl+C: Copy selected car's location to clipboard

Ctrl+Shift+C: Copy selected car's id to clipboard

0.3.56

Old Auto-Update Previews modes reverted back (optional)

Custom Showroom fixed

Added auto-update for selected skin, very handy

To exit from new Auto-Update Previews mode, press Esc, now app will handle it properly

0.3.55

Auto-Update Previews mode now works perfectly thanks to @6S.Manu!

Proper fixed position without any input simulation!

You can update one preview at the time

PP filter was adjusted to match new 1.4 look

Manual mode still works old way, maybe it will be useful for some special cars

Stretching & size fixed

Filters improved

Now with numbers: “year>1995”

And specs: “bhp<500”

And combining them: “author:Kunos & (bhp < 200 | weight > 1000)”

Another example: “!ks_ & author:Kunos”

Shortcuts updated:

Ctrl+Alt+A: Update shadows + Update previews

Ctrl+Alt+S: Update previews

Ctrl+Alt+D: Update shadows

Ctrl+Alt+1: Update preview of selected skin only

0.3.53

Ambient shadows update fixed

0.3.52

Custom Showroom Auto-update previews fixed

Custom Showroom improved (now with normal maps)

Ambient shadows update for AMD videocards

A lot of fixes for systems which use “0,1” instead of “0.1”

0.3.51

Bugfixes

0.3.49

Preview generator quality has been reduced back (there is the new option to use PNG, but be careful!)

Support for 1.3.1

Simple race mode (more settings will be in next WPF-version)

0.3.48

LR/HR nodes fixer (enables COCKPIT_HR, disables COCKPIT_LR and etc)

Blurred rims fixer (use it when car in showroom has blurred rims)

Preview generator quality has been improved

Warning! There is a bug in Windows GDI+, which messes up JPEGs even when quality is 100%. So for now app saves preview.jpg as PNG-image. Everything should work fine anyway, but it's still kinda bad. I'll try to find better solution.

Shortcuts updated:

Ctrl+Alt+A: Update shadows + Update previews in manual mode

Ctrl+Alt+S: Update previews in manual mode

Ctrl+Alt+D: Update shadows

0.3.47

Fixed year autoinsert

Fixed cars toggle

Custom Showroom: fixed, improved, optimized

0.3.45

Fixed memory leaking, improved perfomance

Fixed INI parsing (seriously, these files are such a mess)

Bugfixes

0.3.44

Bugfixes

0.3.42

New highly recommended PP Filter special for Auto-update Previews

New drive modes: hotlap, drift

Added support for tracks with different configurations

Auto-detect original sfx uses

Restoration Wizard:

Missing sfx

Bugfixes

0.3.41

Fixes and improvements for Kn5 and Custom Showroom

0.3.40

Drag'n'drop archive or folder to install new cars or skins or update existing

Warning! When you're installing skins, you have to select target car first!

Thank you. App can’t auto update all previews for all cars in one click for now, mostly because it’s pretty unstable process (especially camera rotation), sorry. Also it would take a hell of time. Custom Showroom can generate stable previews, but I didn’t add for it function to update every car either, because for now my shaders are very far from original, I’m still working on it.

Yes, I finally figured it out and I can’t believe this app can do such beautiful, indeed work…

Just one more thing left; If the user storage can be set to another hard drive, it would be just awesome. I installed AC on 180GB SSD and if I can disable cars to my 1TB HDD that would be really useful.

(ui_skin.json) are you going to be able to make a creator in content manager to edit the driver json file? basically in each skin folder where driver name, country and etc is written? would it be possible to automate and correct it? just curious if something like that is possible? example by 3-letter ISO format? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
and driver names also available online wiki and other sources not sure if possible and also remove “priority” out in the ui-skin.json file.
thanks again for your great work!!! and all your efforts!!!

Thanks! And thank you for the tip, good idea, I’ll definitely add option which will allow user to change “-off” directories to Content Manager. But I’m not sure about Cars Manager, it’s kind of big architectural change and it could ruin stability (and Cars Manager pretty unstable already).

Your app also recognizes these links, when i change something with your app (your app set to game’s original cars folder so it just see symbolic links) also things change in non-symbolic link folders on another hdd.

Frankly, I do not anymore need “disable mods to another hdd” 🙂 I have all mods installed on another hdd now and I can also see them in game 😉

just curious, will AcTools Cars Manager be further developed and supported, helping users who have problems or is this already dropped, since you are working on CONTENT MANAGER, and will AcTools Cars Manager be integrated into CONTENT MANAGER?
since really disappointing to see one of the best if not THE BEST tool just fade away…AcTools Cars Manager, RIP!

Hmm, sorry, it’ll be integrated. Cars Manager was pretty badly made program (way too heavy and buggy, RAM consumption alone is off the charts!)

It’s almost integrated already (apart from features like error fixer, data analyzer and livery updating), and, if you asked me, all its functions is better after moving to Content Manager. Custom showroom is much, much better (also, with features like UV export); ambient shadows updating is almost like some raytracing stuff (but faster); previews auto-updating is done in 4k resolution so result is very well anti-aliased, etc.

Also, I’m going to move all missing features as soon as possible and when Cars Manager will be fully moved, whole Content/Cars section will be available without any donation/app key/etc (it’s actually a whole point of lite/full version — we decided to hide some unfinished WIP things, but if somebody would like to support app and its development, he’d receive an access to them to see what’s going on and maybe suggest something).

Just for in case, what features of Cars Manager do you need the most? I’ll move them on top of the To-Do list. 🙂

0.3.49 was working great with v.1.3.4 and then i’ve decided to run the latest (0.3.51) and all hell break loose. Now 0.3.49 stable is arguing about not been able to load the native module and keeps restarting. Pls advice.